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Gears, formerly Google Gears, was software offered by Google that "enables more powerful web applications, by adding new features to the web browser. It allows some online files to be used offline". Released under the BSD license, Gears is free and open source software.

Gears, formerly Google Gears, was software offered by Google that "enables more powerful web applications, by adding new features to the web browser. It allows some online files to be used offline". Released under the BSD license, Gears is free and open source software.

In late November 2009, numerous online news sources reported that Google was going to migrate to Web Storage rather than use Gears in the future. A Google spokesman later clarified that Google would, however, continue to support Gears so as not to break sites using it. On 22 November 2011, Google announced that on 1 December 2011, Gears support would be removed from Gmail and Google Calendar. Gears was removed from Google Chrome stable on June 7, 2011.

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_gears

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Google gears a good solution for online/offline wiki?

we need an online offline wiki type app that is basically a number of pages with documentation in, but that also would need to link to a number of files .. words docs/ pdfs/ ppts etc that are on a synched mapped drive on the users laptop.. could…
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Offline websites using Google Gears or HTML5

I have been reading about creating offline websites using Gears and using HTML 5. Im curious as to advantages and disadvantages of the two in regards to an ASP.Net MVC2 applcation with a SQL Database Backend. It seems to me that since Gears…
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Google Gears - Database - VACUUM

With this code: var db = google.gears.factory.create('beta.database'); db.open('cominar'); db.execute('CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS Ajax (AJAX_ID INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT , MODULE TEXT, FUNCTION TEXT, CONTENT_JSON…
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Offline mode in ASP.NET Web Application

I want to build a web application (SaaS) that can work both in Online and Offline modes. The user needs limited features in case he is offline and full feature access when he becomes online again. I thought of the following options: Make the user…
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Javascript Session Data Storage

Does anyone know of a reliable way to store data to use across pages of a site?... Here is what I've found so far: Cookies - Not enough capacity to store what I need atm. URL hash - Same as above Frames - Not a method I would use atm. HTML 5…
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Iphone App vs. Offline Web App. Which way is the smartest?

I think about starting from scratch building a small application fullfilling two technical requirements: should be usable on iPhone should work offline There are two obvious alternatives here to choose between A real iPhone application with…
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Gears complaints about JRE 1.5 in GWT project

I just tried to use Gears in my GWT application and got following error: Jul 12, 2009 6:26:29 AM com.google.apphosting.utils.jetty.JettyLogger info INFO: jetty-6.1.x Jul 12, 2009 6:26:29 AM com.google.apphosting.utils.jetty.JettyLogger warn WARNING:…
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Issue with Google Gears and jQuery creating a managedStore

I'm trying to create a managedStore to cache all the js, img, swf and css from a web app I'm developing. Here is the code: $(document).ready(function() { var manifestName = 'cache_manifest.json'; var storeName = 'cache'; var…
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http get/post request and google geolocation api

I'm using the web application at http://m.rummble.com website and when I click find my location using gears. The application returns my current location (approximate city location) with various establishments in a given mile radius. To further…
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Using Google Gears with Rails

I have been tasked with exploring the possibility of offline access of my webapp. What are people's experiences using google gears with rails? I am aware of the gearsonrails project, but it has some really strange constructs and doesn't appear to be…
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Transparent google gears scenario validation

I want to use google gears, not for functionality but for optimization. I.e. if gears is detected in the browser side, then we will silently use it to do some optimizations and caching in the client side. If it isn't installed we silently work…
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Use Camera to capture Text. Android?

I want to do something like a Google Googles but use only the Camera to text feature in it. I want to use the camera to take picture of a text image, and convert it into text for use with in a edit text. Is this possible. How to do this? Any kind of…
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How do I escape data in Javascript for a client-side database like WebDB or Google Gears?

If I'm using a client-side database like Google Gears or a WebDB implementation, what's the best way to escape the data to prevent SQL injection? Wrap it in encodeURI()? Furthermore, do I even need to worry about it? There's a blurb here,…
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Mobile platform (android?) for developing apps (offline website)

Some years ago I dipped my foot in the water of developing WML websites and J2ME apps - and found it a rather unpleasant experience. Hearing stories about developers making $$$ in their free time, writing trivial apps for iphone and android, and…
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Best way to implement drag and drop upload Google Gears or HTML 5

What would you recommend for supporting drag and drop upload - that is being able to drag a file icon from the desktop onto some "zone" on a web page and have it uploaded to the server. THe options are Google Gears,HTML 5 or anything else you can…
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